Manhattan

The 5-foot-8, 165-pound crook first entered the Popular Community Bank at 134 Delancey St. on the Lower East Side at around 11:45 a.m., cops said.

Police said he handed a teller a note that stated: “This is a bank robbery. Give me $7,000 from your top draw, I have a gun.”

The teller turned over about $1,300, and the robber fled.

Then, at 12:22 p.m., the thief walked into the Capitol One Bank at 245 E. 34th St. in Murray Hill and passed a similar demand note to a teller, cops said. This time, he made off with about $1,000.

No gun was displayed in either incident.

A thief stole thousands of dollars from a Financial District bank and tried to rob two other Manhattan banks, police said Friday.

The skinny, middle-aged crook struck first at a Chase branch on Barclay Street near Greenwich Street at around 11 a.m. Jan. 25, cops said.

He slipped a 19-year-old teller a note that read, “This is a robbery. I have a gun,” sources said.

He then barked orders at the teller, screaming, “Give me the note back! Give me the money!” the sources said.

Frightened, the teller slid the note back to him along with $6,000, the sources said.

Then, on the morning of Feb. 18, the robber strode into a Bank of America on Third Avenue near East 62nd Street and passed a note to a teller, stating, “This is a robbery. Let me get all the 100s and 50s. Nobody gets hurt,” the sources said.

The teller strolled away, prompting the thief to dash out empty-handed.

Hours later, he tried to knock off a Chase Bank at West Fourth Street and Washington Place, but fled empty-handed again.